Micah 3 - Israeli Authorized Version

¹ And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Yaakov, and ye princes of the house of Yisrael; Is it not for you to know judgment?

² Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

³ Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

⁴ Then shall they cry unto YY , but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

⁵ Thus saith YY concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

⁶ Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

⁷ Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of Elohim.

⁸ But truly I am full of power by the spirit of YY , and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Yaakov his transgression, and to Yisrael his sin.

⁹ Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Yaakov, and princes of the house of Yisrael, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

¹⁰ They build up TZiyon with blood, and Yerushalayim with iniquity.

¹¹ The heads thereof judge for reward, and the kohanim thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon YY , and say, Is not YY among us? none evil can come upon us.

¹² Therefore shall TZiyon for your sake be plowed as a field, and Yerushalayim shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.